Events
RHS February London Flower Show
14-15 February 2006
Fashion in the garden
What’s hot, and what’s not? Can you spot a trend?
The RHS London Flower Show in February was a must-see event for the fashion conscious with more than 25 exhibitors from around the country giving their top tips for the plants to look out for in 2006. Themed around Fashion in the Garden, to coincide with London Fashion Week, the show was bursting with colour with displays from some of the country’s leading nurseries.
Exhibitors
Floral
Avon Bulbs
Bluebell Arboretum & Nursery
Brian & Pearl Sulman
Broadleigh Gardens
Burncoose Nurseries
Choice Landscapes
Churchtown Nurseries
Dibleys Nurseries
Fibrex Nurseries
Foxgrove Plants
Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants
Harveys Garden Plants
H W Hyde & Son
Jacques Amand International
NAFAS
P W Plants
Pembroke Farm Nursery
Pennard Plants
Potash Nursery
Pottertons Nursery/Peter Orme Landscapes
Rotherview Nursery
Rougham Hall Nurseries
Rushfields of Ledbury
Southcombe Gardens
The Botanic Nursery
The Old Walled Garden
Trehane Camellia Nursery
Sundries
Access Garden Products
Carpenders Park Nursery
Darlac
International Camellia Society
Ivelet Books
John Wells (Botanical Publisher)
Mike Park Ltd
RHSE Ltd - The Wisley Shop
Snape Stakes
The Copper Garden
Tim Huckstepp
Wells & Winter
Artists
Belinda Noble
Catharine Nicholson
Derek Norman
Harue Takumi
Irene Schmidt
Joanna Craig-McFeely
John Pastoriza Pinol
Josephine Newman
Julia Trickey
Karen Tomsett
Mieko Ishikawa
Mr Sam Cook
Nina Barranca
Peta Stockton
Rosalind M Timperley
Sue J Williams
Vivienne Taylor
Wendy Gibson BA (Hons)
Show report & images: Tim Sandall
Visitors arrived in their hundreds to enjoy the February London Flower Show. Within half an hour of the doors opening the show seemed almost full to capacity. This popular early show seemed to portray the beginning of spring, with 26 exhibitors showing a range of early spring flowers and plants. To accompany the plants there was a competition of botanical art which, according to committee chairman Gordon Rae, contained some of the best painting seen for a while.
Spring-flowering bulbs supplied much of the colour for the show, accompanied by a variety of early perennials, cacti, trees and shrubs, bamboos, cut flowers and plants from the southern hemisphere. The judges awarded six Gold Medals, which confirmed the quality of this successful show.
This display of trees, shrubs and ornamental plants was staged by Burncoose Nurseries from Cornwall and was rewarded with a Gold Medal
P W Plants from Norfolk deserved a Gold Medal for this display of hardy bamboos and associated woody plants
Early spring bulbs and alpines from Pottertons Nursery, based in Lincolnshire, were easy winners of a Gold Medal
For the second month in a row Southcombe Gardens from Devon was awarded a Gold Medal for a display of cut willows and artefacts
Galanthus 'S Arnott' - just one of the early flowering spring bulbs on the Gold Medal winning stand from Avon Bulbs
Saxifraga 'Nottingham Gold' was just one of the little gems on the exhibit from Pottertons Nursery which the judges awarded a Gold Medal
Here are the winning results
Gold
Avon Bulbs Ltd:Early spring-flowering bulbs
Broadleigh Gardens:Snowdrops, cyclamen & early daffodils
Burncoose Nurseries:Trees, shrubs & ornamental plants
P W Plants:Hardy bamboos & associated woody plants
Pottertons Nursery/Peter Orme Landscapes:Early spring bulbs & alpines
Southcombe Gardens: Cut willow artefacts
Silver-Gilt Flora
Churchtown Nurseries: Restios & plants from the Southern Hemisphere
Dibleys Nurseries: Foliage begonias & gesneriads
Harveys Garden Plants: Early spring-flowering perennials
H W Hyde & Son: Lilies
Pembroke Farm Nursery: Cacti & succulents
Potash Nursery: Primroses
Rushfields of Ledbury Ltd: Perennial plants
Brian & Pearl Sulman: Scented-leaf pelargoniums
Silver Flora
Bluebell Arboretum & Nursery: Trees & shrubs
The Botanic Nursery: Winter-flowering shrubs & evergreens
Choice Landscapes: Conifers
Fibrex Nurseries Ltd: Hederas, hardy ferns & hellebores
Foxgrove Plants: Snowdrops
Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants: Early spring-flowering herbaceous perennials
The Old Walled Garden: Plants from the Southern Hemisphere
Pennard Plants: Container plants
Trehane Camellia Nursery: Camellias & pieris
Silver Grenfell
NAFAS: Fashion in the Garden
Bronze Flora
Rougham Hall Nurseries: Primulas & houseplants in containers
Botanical art awards
Gold
Sam Cook: Exotic fruits in watercolour
Mieko Ishikawa: Sakura: flowering cherries of Japan in watercolour
Catharine Nicholson: Pen & ink studies of the conifers of Canford
Derek Norman: Native flora of the urban Midwest in pen & ink
Irene Schmidt: Watercolours
Peta Stockton: Proteaceae in watercolour & gouache
Julia Trickey: Leaf portraits in watercolour
Silver-Gilt Grenfell
Nina Barranca: Old rosehips in coloured pencil
Joanna Craig-McFeely: Apothecaries' Rosaceae herbs in watercolour
John Pastoriza Pinol: Masdevallia & other pleurothallia orchids in watercolour
Harue Takumi: Prunus in watercolour on paper
Sue J Williams: Oxalis in watercolour
Silver Grenfell
Wendy Gibson: Fritillaria in watercolour
Belinda Noble: Domesticated capsicums
Vivienne Taylor: Cacti in watercolour
Rosalind M Timperley: Flowers & fruits of the hedgerow in watercolour
Karen Tomsett: Coloured fungi of Dartmoor in watercolour
Bronze Grenfell
Josephine Newman: Iris in watercolour